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Research Fellowship Awards for 2015-2016

The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute is pleased to announce its research fellowship awards for 2015-2016. HURI’s fellowship program enables scholars to come to Harvard to carry out independent research on topics in Ukrainian studies. We are thankful to the Eugene and Daymel Shklar Foundation, the Petro Jacyk Education Foundation, the Ukrainian Studies Fund, and Dr. Jaroslaw and Nadia Mihaychuk whose gifts and endowment support have made such research opportunities possible.

HURI’s Historical GIS Project

On June 24, 2015 the Holodomor Atlas, a unique online resource, was presented in Kyiv at the National Memorial Museum of Holodomor Victims in Ukraine. It is a result of collaboration between Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and a group of historians, demographers and other experts from different institutions in Ukraine, and presents an interactive GIS-based series of maps of the Great Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933.

Launch of the Journal of Ukrainian Politics and Society

Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute is pleased to announce that Nadiya Kravets and Olha Onuch, HURI fellows, together with the Krytyka Institute, have just launched a new scholarly journal on Ukraine - Journal of Ukrainian Politics and Society. This publication, Krytyka's newest project, is an English-language interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed scholarly journal that sees its mission in promoting social sciences in Ukraine.

Rus’ Genealogy Project

The Rus’ Genealogy component of the MAPA project is part of a larger attempt to shift the perceptions of modern scholars to include Rus’ in the wider narrative of medieval Europe, and to create a picture of the medieval European world that fits the evidence from the primary sources -- one that stretches from the Atlantic in the west to the Dnieper River in the East. One of the chief ways to do this is by looking at the connectivity between Rus’ and the rest of Europe, and one of the richest sources of data is in the arena of dynastic marriage.

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Anne Applebaum on the Challenges Facing Ukraine and What the West Needs to Do

HURI: What is currently referred to as "the Ukraine crisis" has obviously turned into a European crisis, and that calls for a total reevaluation of all the established assumptions and notions. Your book "Gulag. A History" made you one of the leading experts on the former Soviet Union and the present-day Russia. Considering that after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia has become its successor-state and appropriated most of its assets as well as its ideology, to what extent should Russia be "held responsible" for the crimes of the Soviet totalitarianism?

Serhii Plokhii on Hromadske International "The Sunday Show"

The dominant narrative in both the United States and Russia emphasize the United States’ role in the collapse of the Soviet Union. However, this narrative contradicts the White House’s attempts to support Mikhail Gorbachev and keep the Soviet Union intact says Professor of History at Harvard University, Serhii Plokhii. The United States discouraged Ukraine's referendum for independence, which passed by an overwhelming margin and put the final nail in the Soviet Union's coffin.

Volodymyr Dibrova, Preceptor at Slavic Department, Editor at HURI

Volodymyr Sklokin, Shklar Fellow 2014-15

HURI Awardees of the National Science Foundation Grant

May 24, 2014. Prof. Henry Hale (Principle Investigator, George Washington University), Prof. Timothy Colton (Co-Investigator, Harvard University), Dr. Nadiya Kravets (Co-Investigator, HURI, Harvard University) and Dr. Olga Onuch (Co-Investigator, HURI, Harvard University and University of Oxford), have formed a research team studying the politics of the Ukrainian crisis, and have been awarded a large National Science Foundation Grant to conduct a Multi-wave Electoral Panel Survey in Ukraine. Funding for the project has also been provided by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and the Ukrainian Studies Fund.

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Escape from Rome: Feofan Prokopovych and the Fate of Ukrainian Orthodox Clergy in the Eternal City, 1650–1750Andrey Ivanov, Assistant Professor of Modern Russian History; University of Wisconsin-PlattevilleRoom S-050, CGIS South, Harvard University